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Purpose
Opening up the possibilities!
This document is still a draft and is subject to change, any new good idea might shake it substantially!
If you are interested, please raise your voice and come discuss this document in our discord
- Provide a new economically viable way of doing open research in ML
Why though?
AI research has never seen such an influx of capital than those past few years so why try to find a new way to fund those research?
Even though most AI research is published transparently on platforms such as Arxiv, the community has been fighting for years to ensure reproducibility and transparency, being perfectly aware that AI research's own such tremendous potentials that doing it behind closed doors is not an option. Especially if one wants to democratize its use while keeping ethics in check.
OpenAI was among the first to embrace this vision while seeing that the first bottleneck of AI research was engineering. Maybe they came too early but their need for funding across the board (salaries, computing power, etc.) attracted investors and my guess is that the trap has closed on them: they had to go back on a business model behind closed doors. This is the price of speed.
Hopefully, the field still contains startups that are pushing the envelope forward! Trying to be as transparent as possible while solving the engineering bottleneck and having investors at the same time. But the same risk lies upon them. How long will their business model be sustainable before having to bend to economic necessities and start closing their doors too in the name of competitiveness?
My hope is that they succeed, but can we create a research organization that does not suffer those risks?
Using current web3/Defi tools, we believe new incentives can be built to foster a decentralized and transparent research community from the ground up. By providing a sustainable path towards a decentralized self-funding research lab, we also see ourselves as orthogonal to companies in general, hopefully providing a missing piece to the ecosystem.
- Become the first decentralized, autonomous, and transparent ML (Machine Learning) Research Lab
- We believe that research should not be controlled by a corporate/state entity but on the contrary, be openly transparent.
- We believe this ambition is aligned with the capacity to properly compensate researchers for their work.
- We believe that a DAO being at the intersection of crypto and ML can give us enough collective power to help solve some of the most important problems in the field and beyond.
- We believe that radical transparency through a democratic process and open tooling is a necessity to succeed.
- We will proactively prevent research that we perceive to be unethical.
- Fund open research initiatives with an ulterior economic incentive allowed by blockchain technology
- Reward the Lenia DAO members for their economical support and concrete involvement in order to foster a strong community around us
- Develop the Lenia brand to raise awareness about the project and grow the community
- Gather a ML creator community around our values and help them produce visual/audio/??? collections from their research and artistic work.
- Fund researchers in the broader cellular automata community, which could help the discovery of new underlying rule systems, proof of mathematical properties, etc. Each of those examples could be sold as NFT to reward researchers.
- Provide world-class blockchain tooling for ML researchers/artists to ease publishing and monetizing their work. As tools are always one of the limiting factors in research, we believe the blockchain provides new tools to solve the publishing business model crisis while making it de-facto open, transparent, and robust to censorship.
- Reward for their economical support and concrete involvement in order to foster a strong community around us
- Produce derivatives at a very low fee for holders of NFT collections.
- Track involvement of the most active DAO members with any possible means (POAP, Snapshot, transactions, etc.) and use them as gateways to exclusive perks
- Build an ecosystem (including innovating tokenomics) to provide values for members.
- Appeal to the ML community of researchers through evangelization and education (blog and oral interventions).
- Develop stylish merchandising to appeal to a larger audience
- Make Lenia an integral part of the metaverse(s) by making it more composable and integrable (in 3D environments for example).
- Make the DAO take part in open research initiatives outside of our direct scope
- Develop a consistent and recognizable tone through social media communication